With this great verse from Lech Roch lyrics I want to come back to my blog. As everyone knows June for a sound engineer means loads of work. After Lucien Dubuis Trio tour I went straight away with Afromental on two concerts in Glucholazy and Konin. I was thinking wether to write anything about Glucholazy because it was long time ago and I got really pissed off with this gig. But hell! Why not. Maybe it could be helpful for another bands who would like to perform in Glucholazy.
We arrived in Glucholazy at 1pm to start a rehearsal so that the quality of the prospect gig will be the best. Unfortuantely just after our arrival it came up that table has not enough inputs, PA wasnt tunned, PA from 3 different producents and in general it was just strange. Guys from Afro played football (or soccer if you prefer) and technicians were struggling with cables and diboxes on stage. Finally we managed to connect everything so that we could start our rehearsal. It took us 3 hours. We started but suddenly sth was making cracking noise, and I thought it was some sort of electricity cut off or problems with cables but the sound engineer from that place was swearing to god that cables are new and its not possible that sth is wrong with them. If so, we continued our rehearsal. It was Sniady’s korg turn. And we solved the cracking noise problem, because it came out that whole bottom line was cut off. We wanted to change the cable but this guy keep talking that its new and everything is okey with it. So maybe dibox? We changed it and nothing improved. Maybe multicore? Nothing. In the very end we managed to change this cable and everything was alright! Later we had problems with Baron’s computer. Then one guy told us that we should start at 4pm and we still hadn’t finished our rehearsal. I was completely pissed. I came to our bus to get cable’s tester of Dave Rat’s and I checked all cables in this place. It turned out that 10 cables in a row was damaged! First 10 in a row we checked were useless! Great, ha? In the meantime one guy came on the stage and announced the beginning of Glucholazy’s day. Me and the band were playing in the background;)
Of course each and every on his instrument.
Next day we went to Konin on its Festival of Kids Song (some sort of). It was very nice – we fought record of loudness – 107 dB in A scale. Public was full of teenagers.
The great ‘XXX’ in the background on the stage.
I recommend the moment 3:09 when Marcin’s mum comes in.
And this is my version with 107 db.
I virtually changed Afro’s bus to family bus to Berlin. We were heading for a wedding of Ania’s sister. And yes, I was wearing a suit.
Just after afro I had couple of days at home. I didn’t clean much, because Ania does that but it gets really dusty after just couple of days of absence. On Thursday I was already with Miloopa on our way to Luzembourg on Fete de la musique.Very nice 5 days away from home.
First day we played the best sounded concert in my miloopa’s career. I regret that I didn’t record that gig.
Unfrotunately the public wasn’t really lively. I recon they just don’t feel that music. Although there were quite a few of them, but they were just standing.
In general this festival is a really huge thing in Luxembourg, it attracts attention of great amount of citizens. On the first day there were maybe 2 thousands of people, on the second twice as many, and on the third I couldn’t even think of the numbers.
They randomly suspend sound system randomly in the middle of a street… I really don’t know why but it’s impressive.
The last day we played in the center of Luxembourg and people were more vivid. And the band that played after us…
They called Hal Falvin. Check their myspace. They’re really great!
As you can see on the pic above we didn’t have much time for przepinki. Around 20 mins to podpiąć się and do soundcheck.
